Information Assurance
What are Cookies?
What exactly is a cookie? A cookie is information that a Web site you visit leaves on your machine. The World Wide Web is stateless, which means it does not maintain a connection with the user visiting a Web site. Cookies were designed as one way to maintain the continuity of the net session across many separate requests. Cookies are valuable because they improve the quality of Web visits and can provide a context for your visit -– for example, whether you have visited previously, what parts of the site you previously visited, and the date of your last visit.
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